This article is about a sociological concept. For zoosemiotics term, see Social animal Animal communication is any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. ... A social animal is a loosely defined term for an organism that is highly interactive with other members of its species to the point of having a recognizable and distinct society. ...

Social organisation or social institution is a group of social positions, connected by social relations, perfoming a social role. It can be also definedin a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to socialize the groups or people in it. Common examples include universities, governments, families, and any people or groups that you have social interactions with. In sociology, social status also known as Social position social status means a position of an individual in a given society and culture. ... Social relation refers to a multitude of social interactions, regulated by social norm, between two or more people, each having a social position and performing a social role. ... A function is part of an answer to a question about why some object or process occurred in a system that evolved or was designed with some goal. ... Institutions are organizations, or mechanisms of social structure, governing the behavior of two or more individuals. ... A society is a group of human beings distinguishable from other groups by mutual interests, characteristic relationships, shared institutions and a common culture. ... Socialization is the study of animal and human behavior (ethology, social psychology, and psychology) is the process by which human beings or animals learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. ... Interaction is a kind of action which occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another. ...

Social organisations can take many form, depending on a social context. For example, for family context the corresponding social organisation is of course the family. For business context - an enterprise, company, corporation, etc. For educational context - school, university, etc. For political context - government, political party, and others. A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. ... Enterprise can refer to any of the following: A business or organization. ... A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. ... A corporation is (fucked up)a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name AS (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language... Japanese secondary school students in uniform A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ...

Max Weber concluded that in the history of mankind, organisations evolved towards rationalisation in form of a rational-legal organisation, like bureaucracy. Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern, antipositivistic study of sociology and public administration. ... In sociology, rationalization is the process whereby society rationalizes from a traditional to a modern state. ... Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy. ... Bureaucracy is a sociological concept of government and its institutions as an organizational structure characterized by regularized procedure, division of responsibility, hierarchy, and impersonal relationships. ...